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This is an experiment in the use of the adapter pattern
<aside> It started off as an experiment in passing JSON terms back and
forth between a server and the browser - for this I used misultin
but yesterdays announcement that misultin would cease to be supported
promoted this work - then I threw in ehe which I've been toying with
for a while ...
</aside>
I have made simple adapters for misultin/mochiweb and cowboy.
The example assumes that misultin/mochiweb and cowboy have been
installed and compiled on your machine.
On my machine I have downloaded the latest zip files from github
and built the packages
I have added three lines in ${HOME}.erlang so that the erlang loader
can find these three programs.
code:add_patha("/Users/joe/nobackup/mochi-mochiweb-af4cb95/ebin").
code:add_patha("/Users/joe/nobackup/extend-cowboy-e7b6e2a/ebin").
code:add_patha("/Users/joe/nobackup/installed/mochi-mochiweb-b7f3693/ebin").
There are three adapters
misultin_adapter.erl
cowboy_adapter.erl
mochiweb_adapter.erl
Using these adapters we can write server.erl in a generic manner.
I have also made a simple scripting language ehe.
About ehe
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Ehe is *very* simple.
Files with the .ehe extension are assumed to be html files containing embedded
Erlang.
The syntax <?e .... ?> assumes the bit inside the delimiters is a sequence
or Erlang expressions. The replacement value of the sequence is the
*last* value in the sequence. Binndings created in the squence are propagated
to the next block of embedded erlang.
The Global variable 'Req' inside an embedded Erlang expression is the
paramterised module which allows the appropriate adapter to be called.
Thus 'Req:magic()' calls (for example) calls mochiweb_adapter:magic(Req)
if we are using the mochiweb adapter.
To play with this
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1) install mochiweb, misultin and cowboy
2) edit your .erlang so that the system can find the mochiweb, misultin and
cowboy compiled beam files
3) type
> make server1
> make server2
> make server3
to test
4) Take a look at the (generic) server.erl
5) Take a look at json_round_trip.ehe
Note: this assumes the script openchrome starts a chrome browser
you will have to tweak openchrome to start some other browser